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Sleezy credit card companies
The nerve of them...
I had a small new charge of $24.60 show up automatically on my Dec statement from Consumer Reports re the online service. I forgot to pay the bill until 3 days after the due date... so...knowing I had my camera purchase and moms books to come re Christmas, I decided to pay the entire balance when the updated January bill arrived. It came today and I noticed a $7.41 interest charge..which just didn't seem right on a credit card with a 12.9% annual interest rate. I called to complain and they informed me that I was being stung for interest on the original late $22.60 PLUS my new purchases of $609.48. It was bad enough that they called yesterday looking for the 'late payment' and the girl couldn't even confirm that they were still charging me the $39.00 annual fee. I looked back and sure enough...it showed up in June. Anyway..even a mild mannered Canadian can only take so much. I told her to take the interest off the new purchases or cancel the card right away.... she chose to cancel. Good riddance to Citibank....maybe they'll go teats up after they squander their share of the bailout money. And yes...I adjusted the final payment to reflect interest on the outstanding balance less that charged on the new purchases. They'll have to come up here and squeeze the $7.00 out of me. Note: as confirmed by the 1st clerk...my credit is perfect......... (or at least *was* if they follow through on their threat to send the o/s $7.00 to the credit bureau) |
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